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The fifth film in the semester-long Documenting the Middle East Film Festival , “The Wanted 18,” was screened at Duke on April 13, 2017, in the Richard White Auditorium on East Campus. A Q&A with Nancy Kalow, a folklorist and filmmaker who teaches at Duke's Center for Documentary Studies, followed the film. Accompanying "The Wanted 18" at the screening was a work-in-progress excerpt from a longer film, "Al-Nakba and the City of Lyd," whose director, Sarah Friedland, also participated in a Q&A.

On April 10, 2017, Behrooz Ghamari, professor of History and Sociology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, visited Duke University to discuss his new book, Remembering Akbar: Inside the Iranian Revolution (OR Books, 2016).

In this video, Zachary Lockman, professor of History at New York University, briefly describes the circumstances surrounding the American invasion of Iraq in 2003 and notes a dynamic wherein subject-matter experts warned that it was a bad idea, while those who knew less called them terror apologists and lobbied for the war.

Ina Merdjanova discussed her book Rediscovering the Umma: Muslims in the Balkans Between Nationalism and Transnationalism (Oxford, 2013) at Duke University on March 28, 2017. Merdjanova is a professor at Trinity College Dublin and formerly the...

This video is the third in the Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East series, "Middle East Explained." It features UNC Sociology Professor Charles Kurzman talking about the history of U.S.-Iranian relations.

On March 1, 2017, Braxton Craven Professor of Arab Cultures miriam cooke discussed the effort to end the use of rape as a weapon of war at the John Hope Franklin Center's Wednesdays at the Center lecture series.

In this video, Iraqi-American poet and writer and PhD candidate at Duke Louis Yako, gives an overview history of the Iraqi War; he explains how the Ba'ath party and Saddam Hussein came to power, the impacts of the Gulf War, the American intelligence failures, and finally the progression of the war itself.

Zachary Lockman, professor of History at New York University, visited Duke to deliver a lecture entitled "Adventures in Field-Building: On the History of Area Studies and Middle East Studies in the United States," and participate in a panel discussion, "Contending Visions of the Middle East" alongside Charles Kurzman and Adam Mestyan.

DUMESC is part of the Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies. The consortium combines the strengths of our center with those of the Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations.